My individual challenges for this project

My individual challenges for this project:

One thing I found challenging at the start was having to play multiple characters I have done this in the past but not to the same extent as in this performance my main character Rodger doesn’t appear till the second part of the play and before then I play a variety of very different characters. I normally like to go into a lot of detail into my characters (backstory, intentions, and relationships) but with some of my characters only having one line or no information I had to go another root to make them stand out using gestures and different types of characterization like animalistic’s  gestus and work on my vocal skills to make my characters unique from each other and stand out to the audience. After working on each character I have managed to develop them into their own unique parts. Now looking at playing multiple characters I can see that it has given me lots of freedom to try out different acting techniques and work on completely different characters and what was a problem has now become a positive allowing me to make characters that can stand out even with only small cameos before going into my main character Rodger.

Another challenge I found was ensemble chorus work.  I have done ensemble chorus work in previous performances but were as before I was leading the chorus now I am part of it and there is no one leading it. I have found this difficult as I am involved heavily and that meant there was loads of ques to remember and as we developed the movement people where still learning lines and missing out que words which made it hard to learn the blocking. The main difficulty I found was getting my movement exactly the same as everyone else’s and at the same time if this is not done it looked sloppy and didn’t add anything to the performance. The chorus work is hugely important to improving the scenes and has to be spot on. One difficulty was swapping from chairs that we were using in lots of the blocking work to blocks which were larger and needed two people to carry this meant we needed to re work lots of our blocking and find ways round certain problems like switching positions quickly, stomping on the floor but the best way I found to sorting this out was just to keep going over it which was another problem as we needed everyone to do these scenes so practicing was hard as we had to get everyone involved and available at the same time.